Wallingford Riegger

Wallingford Riegger ( born April 29, 1885 in Albany, Georgia, † April 2, 1961 in New York) was an American composer.

Riegger studied in 1907 in New York on New York 's Institute of Musical Arts, and until 1910 in Berlin at the Academy of Music with Max Bruch and was then cellist at various opera houses. From 1918 to 1922 he taught theory and cello at the University of Iowa. 1930 to 1956 he worked for a music publishing company and taught at various colleges of New York. He was one of the American Five, a group of avant-garde composer, who are attributed to him except Charles Ives, Charles Ruggles, Henry Cowell and John J. Becker. One of his composition student was Morton Feldman.

Riegger composed four symphonies, an orchestral rhapsody and other orchestral works as well as numerous chamber works.

Works

  • Study in Sonority, 1927
  • Dichotomy, 1932
  • New Dance, 1940
  • Music for Brass Choir, 1949
  • Dance Rhythms, 1954
  • With My Red Fires
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • American composer
  • Born 1885
  • Died in 1961
  • Man
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